The Cockerell Bindery Papers 84127-84857. Business and personal papers of Douglas Bennett Cockerell (b. 1870, d. 1945) and his son, Sydney Morris ‘Sandy’ Cockerell (b. 1906, d. 1987); 1745-1989. Having been apprenticed to T. J. Cobden-Sanderson at the Doves Bindery in Hammersmith, Douglas Cockerell established his own bindery in central London in 1897. By 1904 the bindery, now based in Ewell, had become a specialist arm of W. H. Smith & Son, for whom Douglas Cockerell became controlle...
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Sydney Morris Cockerell, FSA; bookbinder: Douglas Bennett Cockerell, bookbinder: Cockerell Bindery: Business and personal papers of Sydney Morris Cockerell, Douglas Bennett Cockerell and Cockerell Bindery: 1745-1989.